PgCert learning outcomes

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Educational aims of the course:

  • Provide professionally relevant teaching and learning of the knowledge and skills necessary to be at the forefront of efforts to engineer better care
  • Develop healthcare innovation experts with the necessary expertise, and originality of application, to pursue and expand their roles in the rapidly evolving environment of healthcare systems
  • Promote a comprehensive understanding of the practical and ethical considerations relevant to healthcare improvement and biomedical engineering
  • Provide work-relevant learning around the current problems, best-practice, challenges and potential solutions in the delivery of effective health and care
  • Create a professional network of like-minded individuals as leaders in the field of healthcare systems and biomedical engineering
  • Provide students with systems leadership skills and the knowledge to use technology to deliver value in healthcare, research, and commercial arenas
  • Equip graduates with the language and mindset to work in an interdisciplinary manner across the interface between medicine, engineering and commercial settings
  • Expose students to the industrial context and perspective within the technology area, providing opportunities throughout the study for involvement with industrial partners through workshops, seminars and the projects.

Learning outcomes:

Knowledge and Understanding

  • Knowledge of the broad landscape of healthcare systems and biomedical engineering; and understanding of the practical and ethical considerations relevant to healthcare improvement and biomedical engineering. 
  • Knowledge of engineering techniques that can be applied to address challenges in clinical settings, including diagnostics and medical devices.
  • Understanding the role of each key element in healthcare improvement projects.

Intellectual Skills

  • Ability to identify the future trends in healthcare provision, biomedical interventions and use of healthcare data; and communicate to appropriate groups to support the implementation of change.
  • Expertise to apply engineering knowledge and methodology in the complex multi-professional systems.
  • Skills to use the relevant tools to execute systems approaches in healthcare improvement projects.

Transferable skills

  • Professionalism to work in a diverse environment, work value, ethics and sociability, including embracing differences in professional background, culture, language, geography.
  • Not constrained to familiar technology or hard skills, but also the flexibility to adapt to changes.
  • Ability to develop and apply research critically to improve health for individuals, populations and healthcare system.
  • Capability to disseminate and translate knowledge for patient and public benefit.

Employability skills

  • Be able to take the responsibility at the frontiers of organisations with a sharp sense of new opportunities and awareness of the coming trends.
  • Knowledge to improve organisation’s performance, competitiveness and advancement.
  • Skills to facilitate effective and timely decision making within an organisation in healthcare settings.
  • Leadership proficiency to create and close the business loop of design innovations across a diverse range of healthcare contexts.